Abstract. Often, qualitative values have an ordering, such as (veryshort, short, medium-height, tall) or a hierarchical level, such as (TheWorld, Europe, Spain, Madrid), which are ...
Obtaining fast and good quality approximations to data distributions is a problem of central interest to database management. A variety of popular database applications including,...
Given a set of n points in d-dimensional Euclidean space, S ⊂ Ed , and a query point q ∈ Ed , we wish to determine the nearest neighbor of q, that is, the point of S whose Euc...
Abstract. We consider data structures and algorithms for preprocessing a labelled list of length n so that, for any given indices i and j we can answer queries of the form: What is...
Prosenjit Bose, Evangelos Kranakis, Pat Morin, Yih...